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Monday, June 9, 2014

Adichie Loses to Ms. McBride: The Prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize For Fiction



A story by U.K. author, Eimear McBride, A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing, a week ago Wednesday emerged the winner of the prestigious Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction beating Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah. 


Ms. McBride's first novel also topped American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Donna Tartt's Goldfinch to win the $30,000 (N4.8 million) prize.
Based on U.K. Daily Mail, Ms. McBride wrote the novel within 6 months in 2004.
However, over the years, it was rejected by nearly every publisher she took it to as “too experimental.”

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